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CONFESSION #0589 — DEAL THAT EXPLODED
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
We were three days from closing. $680,000 sale, my biggest that year.
Monday: final walkthrough scheduled for 2pm.
Monday 1:45pm: buyer shows up early, lets herself in with the code.
Monday 1:52pm: buyer finds seller still living there. Not packing. Watching TV.
Monday 1:53pm: seller says he changed his mind, he's not selling anymore.
Monday 2pm: I pull up, see buyer crying in driveway.
Tuesday: seller's agent won't return calls.
Wednesday: our attorney sends demand letter.
Thursday: seller claims he never signed anything. He signed everything. I watched him sign it.
Friday: seller's daughter calls me, says her dad has dementia, diagnosed eight months ago.
Saturday: I find out seller's agent knew. Knew the whole time.
The deal died. Buyer lost $12,000 in inspections, appraisals, moving deposits. Nobody got sued because nobody wanted to drag a sick old man through court.
His agent still works three blocks from my office. We don't speak.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF ACCESSORY TO COGNITIVE EXPLOITATION AND CRIMINAL SILENCE IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this testimony and frankly, Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I KEEP A BACKUP GAVEL IN MY CAR. Let us be absolutely clear about what happened here: an agent — a so-called professional — knowingly shepherded a man with dementia through a $680,000 transaction like some kind of fiduciary predator wearing a blazer from Men's Wearhouse. Eight months they knew. EIGHT MONTHS. That is not an oversight, that is a CONSPIRACY OF CONVENIENCE. The Court once refused to sell a house to my own cousin because he seemed confused about which bathroom was the master and THAT turned out to be a simple head cold, but I ERRED ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT PROFESSIONALS DO. You, confessor, are not on trial here — you are a witness to a system that let a sick man become a signature machine while his agent collected commission breath mints and pretended not to notice. The buyer lost $12,000, the seller lost his dignity, and that agent three blocks away lost something they clearly never had to begin with. In the matter of In re: The Silence That Walks Among Us, 2024, The Court finds the confessor merely haunted, but the other agent? GUILTY OF MORAL VACANCY WITH SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES. This Court is adjourned because Order the Roomba has begun circling aggressively and Reginald knows what that means.
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